By Paul Prudhomme, Head of Threat Intelligence Advisory, IntSights, a Rapid7 company In August 2021, as many citizens in Manila looked to get vaccinated against COVID-19, the city’s vaccination website was attacked […]
The Agence France Presse (AFP) reported that members of the ransomware group responsible for the Kaseya attack last year were arrested by Russian officials, “as per the request” of the United States […]
Two years into the pandemic, Southeast Asia (SEA), like the rest of the world, is gearing up for a year of recovery in 2022. Companies and individuals of all ages are ready […]
AvosLocker ransomware has been using a combination of Windows Safe Mode and the AnyDesk remote administration tool in launching attacks. This is one of the findings of cybersecurity solutions company Sophos’ research. […]
Software development firm Cohesity developed a new offering that will improve the security of companies aiming to mitigate cyber-attacks. The new feature called Security Advisor is an addition to its Threat Defense […]
Over the past year, the Asia Pacific (APAC) region has seen an increase in ransomware attacks. The 2021 Unit 42 Ransomware Threat Report of cybersecurity solutions firm Palo Alto Networks revealed that […]
While ransomware will be much “deadlier” than before, cybercriminals have found new attack surfaces to target in 2022. This is just one of FortiGuard Labs, Fortinet’s global threat intelligence and research team, […]
By Genie Sugene Gan, Head of Government Affairs, Asia-Pacific, Kaspersky NotPetya, WannaCry, ShadowPad, and Sunburst may or may not be household names, but these malware, and many more, have unleashed significant harm […]
A trend that is currently building for the future on the side of the bad actor is that ransomware gangs are morphing into “everything gangs.” Instead of just doing ransomware and data […]
Attacks against payment systems and advanced mobile threats will grow in 2022. These are just two of the key predictions from Kaspersky’s ‘Cyberthreats to Financial Organizations in 2022’ report.” The cybersecurity solutions […]
The year 2021 saw an increase in cyber attacks not only in big companies but also in small businesses. Many researchers found that most of the threats are targeted toward anything related […]
The gravitational force of ransomware’s black hole is pulling in other cyberthreats to form one massive, interconnected ransomware delivery system and has significant implications for IT security, according to the Sophos 2022 […]
Cybersecurity solutions firm Sophos published an article “The Top 10 Ways Ransomware Operators Ramp Up the Pressure to Pay,” detailing how ransomware attackers are implementing a wide range of ruthless pressure tactics […]
Companies in the manufacturing sector are the least (19%) likely to submit to a ransom demand when hit by ransomware. This is among the findings of Sophos’ “The State of Ransomware in […]
Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud demonstrated 100% efficiency against ransomware attacks, according to a recent assessment by AV-TEST. As a result of three different scenarios and 113 attack samples, the product didn’t lose […]
Two-thirds of organizations have been the target of at least one ransomware attack, according to “The 2021 Ransomware Survey Report” by cybersecurity firm Fortinet. This, in spite of the claims by respondents […]
In early September, cybersecurity firm Trend Micro blocked 40.9 billion email threats, malicious files, and malicious URLs for customers in the first half of 2021 posting a 47% year-on-year increase. According to […]
Bolstering security postures proved to be far cheaper than paying for a ransomware attack. This is one of the findings in cybersecurity solutions company Sophos in its latest “The State of Ransomware […]
The latest report of cybersecurity firm Sophos reveals that as companies shifted to online trading, they became the top target of ransomware attacks. The “State of Ransomware in Retail” saw that retail, […]
The frequency of ransomware attacks has increased dramatically over the past year, with most of these costly attacks targeting businesses, according to a new study from Barracuda, a provider of cloud-enabled security […]
About a third of organizations worldwide have experienced ransomware attacks, according to the latest data from industry insights provider International Data Corp. (IDC). The attack either led to a data breach or […]
When school shifted online, it was almost expected that cybercriminals would follow. And the latest “Sophos State of Ransomware in Education 2021” report confirmed that the education sector is among the other […]
According to Accenture’s Cyber Incident Response Update, cyber intrusion activity jumped 125% in the first half of 2021 compared with the same period last year. The report saw that web shell activity […]
According to the latest report of security firm Sophos, cybercriminals have been using the Discord Content Management Network to spread malware. Sophos discovered how cybercriminals have been milking the Discord URLs which […]
Cybersecurity company Trend Micro raises the alarm of ransomware attacks attacks aimed at industrial facilities increasing risk of downtime and sensitive data theft. According to the latest report from Trend Micro, Ryuk […]
Cybersecurity solutions firm Sophos has compiled a list of the most commonly held security misperceptions the security researchers encountered in the last 12 months. In sharing the list curated by the Sophos […]
According to cybersecurity solutions firm Kaspersky’s 2020 figures, it would cost a small and medium business (SMB) $101,000 (or around P4.8 million) if they get hit by a data breach. Large enterprises’ […]
Awareness of cybersecurity continues to increase because of news on data breaches but there is still an inadequate supply of cybersecurity professionals. The Philippine Institute of Cyber Security Professionals (PICSPro) aims to […]
To effectively combat cyberattacks in the region, technology giant Microsoft formed a coalition that will enable governments to build cyber defenses to protect organizations and nations. The Asia Pacific Public Sector Cyber […]
Cybersecurity solutions firm Sophos has unmasked new stripped-down ransomware called Epsilon Red that offloads most of its functionality to a series of PowerShell scripts. The ransomware was found in an unpatched server […]
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